‘The life of an individual in any society is a series of passages from one age to another and from one occupation to another’ (Van Gennep 1960 [1909]). Since the publication in 1909 of Arnold Van Gennep’s Les Rites de passage, this...

Rite of Passage A ceremony or event marking the passage from one social status or developmental state to another. The Belgian anthropologist Arnold van Gennep, who first coined the term early in the 20th century, noted a three-part pattern in...

Rites of passage are the constitutive moments of ritual transformation of an individual or collective subject from one culturally defined status to another mode of life. Through this process subjects break with one element of their identity and assume...

Rites of passage are *rituals which mark the passing of one stage of life and entry into another, e.g. birth, puberty, *marriage, initiation to the priesthood, or *death. They are also known in English by the French equivalent, rites de passage, and by...

Rite of Passage is a science fiction novel by Alexei Panshin. Published in 1968, this novel about a Shipboard teenager's coming of age won that year's Nebula Award. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in...

What responsibility do we, as individuals and as a society, have towards children who have been victims of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse? Should they be helped? Can they be helped? Is their premature loss of childhood innocence a hurt that will never...

Imani dancers address coming-of-age issues in performance this weekend Two cultures, continents and worlds are mixing Wednesday night at Mulberry Arts Studio - and it sounds like the soft slap of bare feet on a polished floor. While others clap the beat,...

Some students at the University of Pennsylvania have eagerly waited for three years to be pelted with flour, eggs, ketchup and mustard.They'll have to settle for streamers and marshmallows.That was part of the compromise agreed to by Penn officials and students participating in "Hey Day,"...

The number of mumps cases in Iowa has declined dramatically over the past few weeks, and an outbreak of nearly 2,000 cases appears to be contained, state public health officials said Friday. "People became more aware of it, people were...

An essay for first year Anthropology. Topic of Rites of Passage in modern society.

A rite of passage is more than a journey or a sort of initiation. It is a venture from what someone was, to what that person will be. It is difficult and sometimes dangerous; but it syumbolizes one's growth into adulthood.